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PERUGIA, Italy — Amanda Knox told The Associated Press from her jail cell Sunday that she is scared but hopeful eight days after an Italian court sentenced her to 26 years in prison for the murder of her British roommate. “I am scared because I don’t know what is going on,” the 22-year-old [...]
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On Thursday, we were telling you about former Labor Secretary/current UC-Berkeley prof Robert Reich and the video he cut about the public option that’s burning up the interwebs. (Well, as much a video… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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The Obama administration’s worldview is still emerging, but its policies toward Russia and China are already revealing. Its Russia policy consists of trying to accommodate Moscow’s sense of global entitlement. So far that has meant ignoring the continued presence of Russian forces on Georgian territory, negotiating arms-control agreements that Moscow needs more than Washington does [...]
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BAGHDAD — Chinese, Russian and European companies won the right this weekend to develop major oil fields in Iraq, while U.S. firms made a paltry showing at auctions that represent the first major incursion of foreign oil companies into Iraq in four decades. Read more
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Pakistani authorities on Saturday were searching for an insurgent figure believed to have aided five Northern Virginia men who allegedly tried to join al-Qaeda, saying the case could help unravel a growing network of terrorist recruiters who scour the Internet for radicalized young men. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday. Read more
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MALTRATA, MEXICO — Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico’s pipelines over the past two years, in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement [...]
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PROSPERIDAD, Philippines (Reuters) – Tribal gunmen on Sunday freed all hostages they had been holding for the past three days in the southern Philippines, witnesses and officials said. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama defended on Saturday a consumer watchdog agency the financial industry wants to weaken or strip from legislation that would strengthen the regulation of Wall Street. Read more
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A group of suspected Islamic militants have attacked a jail in the southern Philippines, freeing at least 31 prisoners, prison officials say. Read more
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WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department has received $936.1 million in the sale of warrants it had received from JPMorgan Chase & Co. as part of the support it provided the bank during last year’s financial crisis. The Treasury on Friday said it sold more than 88.4 million warrants in an auction Thursday at a price [...]
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AP – United States Marine MSgt. Mike Hilton from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion sits … Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Afghanistan Video:Snowball Express Means More Than Fun For Families CBS 11 Dallas Play Video Afghanistan Video:Latest quarter Afghanistan’s deadliest CBC.ca By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writer Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 33 mins ago KABUL – Afghan [...]
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‘This is an unacceptable, unholy, unethical and condemnable act that damages our culture’ Read more
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COPENHAGEN (Dec. 12) — Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the chilly Danish capital and nearly 1,000 were detained Saturday in a mass rally to demand an ambitious global climate pact, just as talks hit a snag over rich nations’ demands on China and other emerging economies. The mostly peaceful demonstrations in Copenhagen provided [...]
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Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are at an advanced stage. Read more
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MANILA – The Philippine president has lifted martial law in a southern province where 57 people were massacred in the country’s worst political violence, but the area will remain under a state of emergency as authorities investigate a powerful clan accused in the carnage. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]